rise & carry on

A few resources to help, learn, and promote:

TO HELP AND DONATE:

Black Lives Matter carrd with info, petitions, donation sites they recommend, and readings they suggest

President Obama’s List of orgs to help, things to read, and ways to get engaged

Black-led LGBTQ+ Organizations posted by Alexis Michelle

TO LEARN AND UNLEARN:

5 Ways to Take Action for all non-black people by The Conscious Kid

10-Steps to Non-Optical Allyship by Mireille Cassandra Harper 

How to Be Actively Anti-Racist by Good Good Good Co

Victoria Alexander’s recommendations on Anti-Racist Literature

TO SUPPORT AND PROMOTE:

Abelle Hayford’s #drawingwhileblack Directory of Black Creatives to hire

Author Oge Mora’s List of Children’s Books by Black Authors - also check out Oge Mora’s beautiful books!

A Twitter Thread from Melissa See on Black YA novels

Karina Yan Glasser’s 100 Must-Read Children’s Books by African-American Authors

10 Black-Owned Online Bookstores to buy all these lovely books from!

Bookshop.org’s List of Independent Black-Owned Bookstores 

River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves photographed by Gus Van Sant

get to know me meme: [03/10] » favorite animations: my neighbor totoro (1988)

Totoro, I beg you, please protect Mei. She’ll be lost, and probably scared. Please believe me, I’ll be good for the rest of my life if I can just see her again.   

La belle et la bête (1946).

Rosamund Pike for Modern Weekly

— F. Scott Fitzgerald (via goodreadss)

16. light/dark We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.

Elle France October, 7 2016 LA Divine Photographer: Van Mossevelde + N Celeb: Jessica Chastain

Then came the Dark Days, the uprising of the districts against the Capitol. Twelve were defeated, the thirteenth obliterated. The Treaty of Treason gave us the new laws to guarantee peace and, as our yearly reminder that the Dark Days must never be repeated, it gave us the Hunger Games.

— Anna de Noailles, tr. by Sebastian Hayes, from “My Very Own Life-Force,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

favorite people: sebastian stan 

As an actor, I feel it is my duty to hold a mirror up to nature as best as I can, and to support stories that have been, and still need to be told.

Lake in the morning mist by M Miroslav

This is gonna hurt. There are no prisoners with HYDRA, just order. And order only comes through pain.

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When you look at movies, the lead girl is always gorgeous and thin. There is a stereotype that you need to look a certain way and when you get in the business you really feel the pressure.